Scoggins Valley: Ypresian - Lutetian, Oregon

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Foraminiferida
Foraminiferida indet. (Eichwald 1830)
spelled with current rank as Foraminifera
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Odontaspis macrota (Agassiz 1838)
1 specimen
original and current combination Otodus macrotus
Bivalvia
Pelecypoda indet. Goldfuss 1820
synonym of Bivalvia
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oregon
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 123.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° North, 105.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian - Lutetian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yamhill
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Nesbitt (2018).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,gray "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: blackish gray marine shale
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:200872
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-04-22 14:43:10 Last modified:2019-05-09 09:04:44
Access level:the public Released:2019-04-22 14:43:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35769. S. P. Applegate. 1968. A large fossil sand shark of the genus Odontaspis from Oregon. The Ore Bin 30(2):32-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

32147 B. J. Welton. 1972. Fossil sharks in Oregon. The Ore Bin 34(10):161-170 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]